It won’t come as much as a surprise to many that Kezia Dugdale, the Scottish Labour leader, has backed Owen Smith in the party’s leadership contest. In July, Dugdale said that with Jeremy Corbyn in charge Labour faced being wiped out at the ballot box. As if that wasn’t a clear enough indicator of who she would back, today she’s confirmed it. Dugdale had this to say:
‘Owen Smith gets my vote. I believe Owen can unite our party, and move us on from the divisions that exist under the current UK leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.’
The sentiment is clear and Dugdale is one of the highest-profile elected female figures in the Labour party to come out against Corbyn. But as with Sadiq Khan’s endorsement of Owen Smith, it’s unlikely to help very much at all in helping Smith defeat Corbyn.
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